Funny Posts Of People Grasping The Reality That They’re Old Now Part 2

[@454star454]

I remember playing outside until the street lights came on and drinking from the garden hose during the summer.

[@lunarcorpse]

My dad always said come home at dark 30. 🤣

[@petermcdougall1152]

And knew the house with the most bikes in the yard was the spot. Lol

[@8180634]

I grew up in the woods, no street lights, and our hose was from a well. We drank the water and it was ice cold from the ground, smelled like eggs(sulphur) and was yellow like lemonade from the tannins and iron.

[@petermcdougall1152]

@Joan In Florida lol, man I was going to write that also! Too funny. I grew up in Jupiter Florida. And yes some of those moms were saints! They would always feed us.

[@hotrodderrecycler3202]

Know you are getting old when you could safely drink tap water. Every year for a month now they want you to avoid drinking water from the pipes as they are flushed. Now that month is when they reduce the chemicals used in tap water for human consumption. Water went from having a septic tank smell to an indoor pool. Might be safer to drink from a rain barrel from your new metal roof.

[@misspad7282]

My Grandmother once said, "You know you are getting old when the policemen, firefighters, baseball players, etc. look like kids". She was SO right!

[@cherbear1996]

I was late 20s n called some teens "kids" after my mom choked on her coffee, she laughed n said oh my cheri, you're getting old..well..but to me they were esp as I was training them for summer jobs..now 61.5 n teens drive me nuts, lol

[@youtubingbabs]

All those shows about kids on tv too. Lol.

[@dannymack1196]

OMG so true. I was pulled over by a police officer a couple weeks ago and I remember thinking to myself damn that cop looked like he was 17 year's old.

[@vegasrenie]

OMG!! Even though it’s been a few years since the last time I was pulled over (knock on wood), I remember asking the young officer if his mother knew he was out there playing policeman. He cracked up. Gave me a ticket anyway, but at least he thought I was funny. 😄😄

[@rogerberlin9195]

My Theatchers are kids

[@MrShortWhiteGuy]

The "Oldies" station I listened to as a kid played Elvis, Doris Day, Lawrence Welk, is now playing Sheryl Crow, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hootie & The Blowfish. Now I feel old.

[@sharielane]

I had that same feeling when I heard a Britney Spears song come on the oldies station the other day.

[@drhkleinert8241]

Yep, the 90s are gone since more than 22 yrs...Freddie died 31 yrs ago

[@rustythecrown9317]

@@sharielane ouch

[@kathleen460]

😯 no way!!

[@MissTique247]

LMAO! And it's STILL considered an OLDIES station! 🤦🏼‍♀️ I feel your pain... 🥺✌️

[@parisinthe30sx]

I knew I was old when I drove past an old barn. When I was 18 I'd think, "that would be an awesome place to party", and now I think "that barn wood would make a lovely table"

[@aubreyelf87]

🤣🤣 me and my husband went for a drive last week and spotted around 5 houses and had that same thought. Not the table but just to reuse the wood. My face straight to the side window like a kid infront of a candy shop. 🤦‍♀️

[@parisinthe30sx]

@@aubreyelf87 lol same. I live in an area with alot of very old abandoned barns and I've often just imagined myself in all black sneaking up and prying some of those boards loose 😆

[@vivy45]

@@parisinthe30sx Except I might roll an ankle or twist my back 😁😆

[@lunarcorpse]

When I was little I would see an old barn and I was like ooh cows. But now I'm like they need a new roof and ooh cows. 🤣🤣🤣

[@MarsLonsen]

One very big table

[@dark14life]

This video: "Kids today don't understand burning CDs" Me: "I remember burning CDs. I also remember being forced to sit next to my boom box with a blank tape inside and my fingers hovering over the Record button so I could record my favorite song off the radio. If your timing was off by even just a little, you had to wait until the next time the song played and try again. And that could be hours. Oh, and I used to listen to my dad's 8-track tapes."

[@ckdesert]

My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20 with a data tape player. Then to C-64 with a 300 baud modem! GOOD times!

[@celliek1877]

@@ckdesert Yes, the Commodore 64 was the bomb for its time.

[@bennington7660]

Yes!! I remember getting punished one time for not unloading the dishwasher because Duran Duran the reflex was about to come on and I had to have it recorded asap😂

[@rickc2102]

I snagged Roxanne Roxanne of the radio with my first tape player. A few others, but that was the prize catch.

[@MichaelSmith-ri1rb]

Pro tip: Press the pause button first, them depress the record/play buttons. Release the pause button when the song comes on. Shaves a half second off the reaction time.😎 Actually, it doesn't matter, because the DJ would talk over the first 10 seconds of the song anyway. 😡

[@AmarthwenNarmacil]

Just yesterday I realised "50 years ago" is not in the 50s, it's in the 70s now. 😭

[@daveycrocker4466]

Wow thats a hard one for me to digest. Thanks.

[@drhkleinert8241]

I released that my youth was near to the end of WW2 than today to my youth ( 1945 to 1980 = 35 yrs, and 1980 to now 42 years...) Of course youre not young anymore when you looks back to 37 yrs of marriage (8 first wife, then divorce and 29 with the right wife)

[@dosmundos3830]

@@drhkleinert8241 as a kid I thought of WW2 as a forever ago, it ended 19 years before I was born lol

[@elultimo102]

@@dosmundos3830 For me it was 4 yrs. (Except for being ancient now, I envy those born from '35-'39, who got to be teens in the '50s--- Happy Days).

[@mplwy]

Yeah, that was a tough one.

[@tangyjoe4326]

This one for women only: At the doctor’s office, the first time the nurse asks if you’re still having periods instead of just asking the date of your last one like like they always have. That was a gut punch.

[@ilovenoodles7483]

🤦🏽‍♀️

[@JohnSmith-mj6qx]

"bUt MeN cAn hAVe PEriOdS aLsO". - 2022

[@ACAB.forcutie]

@@JohnSmith-mj6qx you must be fun at parties

[@californigirl]

Sorry, not sorry; I am so happy about it!

[@JohnSmith-mj6qx]

@@ACAB.forcutie You do the chips and dips. I'll do the potato salad.

[@valkyrie1066]

OH, man, you read my life.....I'm 62 on the outside, still 14 on the inside. I learned pong in my senior year. I went to college when computers took up whole rooms, and you made them run with 47 lbs of cards that you better not drop. I learned drafting when you used a slide rule and a pencil. I went trick or treating, and visited the neighbors, who gave us home made treats and drinks, and took pictures of us in our cute costumes. Only rarely would anyone over 14 be out there supervising. Seatbelts were frequently cut OUT of cars, and the kids rode in the back of the pickup truck. If you were injured, you'd be yelled at for not being more careful. Neighbors could yell at you, swat your bottom, grab your ear and take you home to your mom if she caught you misbehaving badly. AND your mom would be mad at you too. WOW...I'm old.

[@megankazukibuttons9334]

We're you that fly on the wall? I swear, my neighbor and I were just talking about all of these things just the other day really realizing how old we are. Also when you're young, time seems to take forever, now it's in the past before you notice it's gone. Here's to the memories. ✌man

[@wonderwoman66dp]

Yeah u are!

[@melissaryder396]

Do you remember Lily Tomlin's routine about getting revenge on the phone company by shrinking the cards that went into those huge computers?

[@cherbear1996]

Right there with ya..61.5

[@cherbear1996]

@@melissaryder396 I used to do a bada55 lily Tomlin impression as a teen.."one ring dingy...two rings dingys.." nose scrunched up, hand as if holding her phone wire..shes great..love her series with Jane fonda too..

[@OvelNick]

"Do not cite the deep magic to me witch. I was there when it was written!" That warms my soul. On my first vacation hiking I had to wait a month to see the pictures because I had just graduated high school and didn't have the $$ to develop them after paying for the trip. I miss the 90s sometimes.

[@bugwar5545]

I miss the 90s a lot.

[@SundayMourningLove]

I miss the '90s ALL the time!

[@lunarcorpse]

My mom has a bag of film from the '80s and 90s and early 2000s and she still hasn't gotten it developed. I'm like Mom if you want to get it done you better do it before they no longer have that as an option. 🤣

[@Jeff-S]

I miss the 70's. The 90s too though.

[@EnlightenedRogue24]

@@SundayMourningLove - I feel bad for anyone who wasn’t around to experience growing up in the 70’s. ☝️😔

[@02ujtb00626]

I knew I was old when I got super excited that the dustpan I bought didn't leave that little line of dirt you have to sweep another 4 times....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Who's with me? Lol....

[@Hiforest]

I must know where you got this brush from. 😍

[@designersmakitbetter]

What’s the name of that dustpan?

[@02ujtb00626]

@@designersmakitbetter I have no Idea...my hubs got it at walmart I think...it is green and white though lol.

[@02ujtb00626]

@@Hiforest walmart I think. The pan is white the brook is green and white.

[@smoochesTina]

Where did you find this miracle of modern day craftsmanship?? I must have one!

[@sommerfranklin9421]

That was definitely a trip down memory lane. I’m 42 and this age is awkward not young and not old just somewhere in the middle. Seeing how so much has changed since I was a kid. But so much stay the same. 🤦🏽‍♀️. 🤯 mind blowing. And how FAST things are moving… The Good , Bad and Ugly….I’m Thankful and Appreciative to be alive to have witnessed and be apart of any this thing we call Life!!

[@derekwalker4622]

At 42, you think you're not old, but try to flirt with a young 20-something, you will be reminded very quickly how ancient you are. I was a young looking fella in my mid-30's, but was shot down by a young 20-something gal quickly.

[@aubreyelf87]

I'm pretty sure 95% of these hit home for me. So bitter sweet.

[@derekwalker4622]

Awwww, you're still young. Enjoy it.

[@ObamAmerican48]

A few days ago I referred to myself as a senior citizen for the first time and it was gratifying. I'm 62. 😊😊😊

I'm pushing 50... Before I watched this video, I felt like 40. Now, after watching this video, I feel like 70. Thanks a lot!!

[@lunarcorpse]

It's okay, I'm 30 and I found out the bands I used to listen to in high school are now on the oldies station.

[@thomasmartinscott]

Don't blink! I was "pushing 50" just the other day. Now I'm looking back at it... 22 years ago.

[@TheSharron]

@@thomasmartinscott 😩Me too…

[@robm.4512]

Relax, I’m looking at 61 from very close up, still mostly feel and think like I did when I was 22 but with added cynicism and backache. Just ripped and burned my tape collection to CD too. 😂

[@candyr85]

@@thomasmartinscott it’s your 22nd anniversary of your 50th birthday 😃

[@duanehellier]

"Video games only worked on channel 3." Thanks for that fun yet awful memory. I actually laughed out loud when I read that.

[@daveycrocker4466]

Had to flip a switch in the back also were you plugged in the bunny ears.

[@kenbrown2808]

there weren't video games...

[@ducewags]

@@kenbrown2808 When were video games invented, please tell us.

[@TheoferrumII]

How many remember playing Pong when it came out?

[@TheoferrumII]

@@ducewags Pong was the first circa 78...

[@nineblackgoats]

Ok I remember all of these but dang, the McDonald's ashtray hit hard.

[@daveycrocker4466]

I dont remember being able to smoke in a mc donalds.

[@hilsbroorjlch3259]

I remember glass ashtrays and the whole place was the smoking section. Thank goodness for progress.

[@immaculateorganicsoaps3533]

That was an ashtray? The more you know.

[@nineblackgoats]

@@immaculateorganicsoaps3533 It's evidence that we millennials lived in an age when people thought it was perfectly ok to smoke in public enclosed spaces full of kids XD

[@jenwuzhere2305]

I feel you buddy😁

[@barbaracartwright468]

I miss those days. I wouldn't want to be young nowadays for anything. It's too hard.

[@kimkimba1131]

Not just hard but way to scary.

[@rainydayz4038]

Agreed. For the first time I’m almost happy that none of my four grown children want to have any children. I’d be afraid for my potential grandchildren

[@bugwar5545]

They been saying that since the first caveman poked his head outside the cave.

[@Timcanniff311]

And lame all they do is sit on their phones! I remember be home when the street lights turn on

[@tammylewis8556]

When I beep the car horn you better get home.

[@krankywitch]

😳We still have that alarm clock, and it still works perfectly! Old means well made, will last a lifetime ☺️

[@jenniferburden1871]

My dad also has that alarm clock!!!

[@mayorb3366]

@@jenniferburden1871 So did I. 'When you think about it, it's really not that big of a surprise. Stores only had so much room for so many choices of an item, and only about 3 or 4 main brands were carried. These days selection is limitless.

[@michiganmoto7687]

I had one too far many years. Things were made to last then. Now they are made to fail after only a few years so you have to buy again. Only reason I don’t still have that clock now is because it didn’t survive one of my kids spilling juice on it about 25 years ago. ✌️

[@gducharme6354]

Same.

[@thetaekwondoe3887]

Mine is that white square Sony one. Still use it every night.

[@geemac7267]

Holding on to that Blockbuster card, hoping for a comeback reward.

[@drhkleinert8241]

Young today" WTF is a Blockbuster?" Or in germany "Videothek, a shop where you borrows Videotapes

[@Akira625]

The Blockbuster in my neighborhood was an extremely busy place in the 90s. Now, it’s a Japanese steakhouse.

[@waynechernick3526]

Be kind Rewind

[@Timcanniff311]

That was my favorite one in this video, never mind you can get beer!

[@brannonhill4046]

If you can make it up to Bend, Oregon, you can still use that card at the last standing Blockbuster

[@dadoctah]

Sean Lennon, a child of five when his dad was killed, is now the same age his mother was when John died. Seven years older than John ever got to be.

[@adaperez4770]

I'm not old, just older, but you have to LIVE to get old. So I'm doing something right. Loved this

[@japprivera3129]

I totally agree with you.

[@coreyworden9675]

Honestly brought a tear to my eye. My how time flies.

[@renel7303]

Oh no! I still have those speakers on the desk. You know, next to the DELL PC tower. 🤣😂🤪

[@mamatroll8898]

me too... :D

[@donotsupportterroristgroups]

I got rid of those speakers last year...... along with the Dell desktop computer.

[@Mrhootie333]

I just posted the same....I have a desktop that I work on daily....and yea, I remember all the other things too (56)

[@texasred2702]

The government and Armed Forces are keeping those things in use. They have millions of then, all designed to run with Windows95.

[@stefankaiser3354]

I miss my big ass Nokia tube monitor... 🙇🏼|🇫🇮

[@tt600pch]

I truly get all of these. My moment was 2 days ago. I had coffee with a lady I used to work with. My son called to talk last night and the subject of her age came up. I told him she was 64 and he said "wow I thought you were older than her". I said son "I'm 58" and he told me I looked way older than her... Then again I always had an "older look" as I bought beer when I was 16. Now I look like a not so fat Santa.

[@kennichdendenn]

I know lots of people who bought their beer at 16... Alas, its legal here 😁

[@Jeff-S]

Your talking a 6 year difference. At our age that it pretty much the same age. Ya know? Its like when we were kids and someone was 6 months older.🤪

[@lovelypandamom]

I realized I was old when I was looking for these butterfly clips from the 90s, and the eBay listing said "vintage" 😭

[@votpavel]

vintage lol

[@markgriffin5889]

Whoever put together this list knew what they were doing. I'm 58 and yes, I still use that same radio alarm clock. And yes, that multi-colored pen was huge in the 1980s. Great memories.

[@aliciamae14]

Those pens are coming back! I just bought one at Target last week, just for the heck of it Haha

[@MimiLisa1961]

Those pens were popular in the early “70’s too!

[@mitchellbirns9825]

Funny

[@reubensandwich9249]

Those audio alarm clocks. They kept time by the frequency of electricity, 60Hz. Every so often DOE wants a variable utility frequency to try and safe energy which we tell them traffic signals and electric alarm clocks still need that 60Hz.

[@LagunaShirogane]

Those pens were still a thing in the 2000s too if i recall in my high school years.

[@olgamountain9904]

Oh, crap. I’m even older, I remember when school desks were wooden and had an inkwell so we could fill up our fountain pens.

[@dr.s.p.]

We weren’t allowed fountain pens and had to use the wooden shafted dip pens. Everyone had to take turns been the ink monitor to top up the ink wells from a huge bottle. We used to listen to the wireless, (the telegoons in the UK). The wireless took over a minute to warm up. I looked at this video and thought, “God, this stuff was when I was in my late twenties and thirties. We were still on ration stamps (from WW2) when I was born. Things were pretty straightforward in those days; not perfect, but a lot less bs than today and you were either a boy or a girl, as you were made and nothing else.

[@Alacritous]

My desks didn't have the inkwells but they did still have the round hole in the top of the desk where the inkwells used to sit.

[@benlevenberg8131]

And we all remember how that desk would save us from a nuclear bomb. "Duck and Cover!".

[@TheoferrumII]

I remember putting pepper in a radiator to stop a leak...

[@srvntlilly]

I was jealous of the kids in public schools who had those flip top desks. My school had the old ones with the metal shelf under the seat where you put your books and papers, and if it got too full, all your stuff would fall out the other side. It also had the inkwell. It was my dream to have a fountain pen.

[@possum2273]

Thank you for this! I'm a Boomer. Loved the walk down memory lane.

[@ritahanigan7896]

What a trip down memory lane! I'm 82 now and can relate to so many of these things. Still have the brown alarm clock-radio btw.

[@Trees_Bees_Onesies]

I was never indoors as a kid, always out with my friends and it would literally be all the kids in the neighborhood hanging out together. Best times of my life.

[@smokeydoke100]

Getting old never really sinks in until you see all of your friends becoming grandparents.

[@celliek1877]

I remember party lines. No one had their own private phone line so you were at mercy of your talkative neighbors. But for the most part, people were respective and would free up the line when asked. Also, you could quietly pick up your phone and eavesdrop on other phone calls although I don't think it happened often. People had manners back then.

[@Possum_13]

First phone I remember in NJ, you picked up the receiver and told the operator the number you wanted eg: Belmont ( BE) 5- 2355!

[@justinleonard5002]

Omg my older sister had the hole high school on party line you would pick up the phone in the living room and it sounded like a pep rally

[@xlerb2286]

We had one neighbor, an elderly lady, that wasn't bashful about listening in. Sometimes she's call you up afterwards to ask questions about what you'd been talking about. But yes, other than her folk were respectful about phone use.

[@celliek1877]

@@xlerb2286 🤣🤣

[@119beaker]

Our phone number started with R that is short long short ring to know the call was for us.

[@johnmckenzie4639]

I go farther back than the A/V cart with the TV and VCR in the classroom. We saw actual films with a film projector. Hey, at least it had sound, right?

[@censorshipsucks9493]

Remember the film strips?

[@aaronleverton4221]

Only for lower primary school, VHS arrived during upper primary.

[@MAILLADY2010]

That cheesy music?

[@johnmckenzie4639]

@@censorshipsucks9493 I definitely remember film strips. If the teacher left a frame in for too long the bulb would start to melt the film. That was always fun.

[@johnmckenzie4639]

@@MAILLADY2010 Yes. Cheesy music that would warble because the projector's speed was constantly changing. Good times.

[@cindybrookshire5391]

Oh my goodness! I remember every bit of that. Remember when you had to dial a phone number with your finger in the holes? Or couldn't be on the computer and talk on the house phone at the same time?

[@rachael11]

The other day my coworkers were talking about the weird movie we were playing. They'd never seen The Princess Bride. It makes me feel old, but also sorry for them.

[@celiashen5490]

Inconceivable!

[@drhkleinert8241]

It was that cool to watch Predator or Indiana Jones in Theatres when they release, or Terminator 2. better dont think about that Predator is 35 yrs old, Raiders 42 and Termainator 2 just 31 yrs old... Movies that made when most Sportstars from today not even was born And when you saw movies like Jaws 1975 in cinema, or the old Godzilla...my first visit in cinema was The Valley of Gwangi, and when i was born James Stewart, Elisabeth Taylor, Charlton Heston and John Wayne had the big Blockbusters in Cinema (How the west was won, 55 days of Peking, Cleopatra)...and Schwarzenegger never heard about Bodybuilding...

[@cherbear1996]

I've NEVER seen it..at all..add to bucket list, lol

[@ckdesert]

..."as you wish!"

[@ldyerin4934]

Those poor souls.

[@theveiledoracle986]

What??? No cassette spool with innards hanging out and twisted that you had to carefully unravel and wind them back in with a ridged pen... We were true surgeons with those spools, and the satisfaction of getting it back into the player...sheer bliss☺️

[@philiprice7875]

try and buy a "tape head cleaner" nowdays

[@AngelaH2222]

...and carefully sticking the busted tape back together with sellotape..

[@RetroXRicardo]

I'm a 40 year old Xennial man, and this video highly confirmed how old I feel. This was a bittersweet nostalgic video for me. I never felt so amused and offended at the same time...

[@frankberry6220]

You know you're old when the toy museum has a bunch of stuff that came out after you started full time employment.

[@LittleKimmy213]

I find myself laughing at every single one of these, ...then instantly I'm bummed and saying to my empty home "dam, I'm old" !

[@rianariana446]

Aahhh...loved it, thank you for sharing! Going for 60! Cant believe it! Still feel young in my head and heart

[@johnhaas9984]

I am literally crying...crying true tears of sadness, as those of us that grew up in the 70's -80's are the last great generation and it is all downhill from here. I would not change anything about my childhood-teenage years. Technology, although great in some aspects, has ruined the world we live in.

[@chefskiss6179]

Those harman kardon speakers were pretty good...! An 'adult' once came up to me and asked, straight-faced, what was it like watching The Breakfast Club when it came out, on the big screen? That happened twenty years ago :/ To be fair, I understood what it felt like wanting to ask my brothers what it was like watching The Godfather in theatres when it came out, so... One time, I was playing I Heard It Through The Grapevine by Marvin Gaye, and a woman said "ooh, I LOVE that california raisinettes band". That was fourty-five years ago :/

[@morenag.7769]

Lmfao…..the ashtray!!! We used to pretend we were smoking as kids & “ash our twigs.” 😬😂💀 this entire video total nostalgia!! The good old days….🙌🏽❤️‍🔥🙌🏽😩😍

[@bennington7660]

When I moved into my first apartment my friends brought me house warming gifts. McDonald’s and Pizza Hut ashtrays

[@georgetrapp6666]

Those were on every table in McDonald's. As kids we used to think it was funny to turn them over, and crush them flat with our food tray, then put them back where we found them. Not knowing they had tons of them in a sleeve, in the McDonald's kitchen. In our teens, we used to steal them. Not knowing... " " ...

[@BackSeatJunkie]

I remember when the ashtrays at McDondal's were made of thick glass ! ! ! ! !

[@melissaryder396]

I remember: when there was no TV after midnight, help wanted ads could specify male or female wanted, the milk man delivered to the back door, there were air raid drills and air raid shelters, ...

[@valkyrie1066]

PawPaw was a milkman, and I remember air a couple raid drills, black and white TV's that you had to change by sending your small child to do it for you. LOL Oh, at some point in grade school, I bought cigarettes and beer for my father. From a bar. In person. Because it "obviously" wasn't for me.

[@johnw2026]

I remember when UPN tv had that little 10 second ad that said "It's 9 o'clock. Do you know where your kids are?"

[@augustvergara6878]

My parents had that alarm clock when I was little

[@aubreyelf87]

Now that you remind me, I do remeber the ads that could specify male or female. Such simple times. As a child I thought nothing of this. It seemed normal.

[@immaculateorganicsoaps3533]

Who remembers am radio?

[@christybradfield7812]

I work as a cashier and spotted an old-looking penny. I wanted to see the date before I handed it to the customer. I explained what I was doing. I said, "oh, never mind, it's not that old." He looked and said it was a 1987 penny. I agreed and said, I graduated that year. He exclaimed, 35 years ago? I guess, so not that long ago. I also worked with GED students, and most were born in the 2000s. I felt old.

[@dguy0386]

my dad graduated in 1988, it had never occurred to me that's close to 35 years ago now

[@christybradfield7812]

@@dguy0386 Yesterday at work I was thanking and welcoming home a Vietnam veteran. He appreciated it, it was a long, long, long time ago. I shared I was born in 1968. He was drafted that year. I said so maybe war makes things seem long ago. He laughed and said, welcome to the half century club. I did the mature adult thing, I stuck out my tongue and blew a raspberry at him.

[@911Truther69]

*_I'm right behind you. My senior class year was 1988._* 🥺

[@christybradfield7812]

@@911Truther69 Do you feel that it was a long time ago or does it seem recent?

[@gabrielagarciamayagoitia1599]

You are too late. I realized how old I was when the Mexican government included me on the first round of COVID vaccs which was for folks 65 and older.......and yes to remembering all the artifacts as the latest and most modern gadgets. Also when I call the government bank to check if my pension has beem deposited and the computer asks me to enter the 4 numbers of my birth year - 1956. Wow!

[@stillaboveground2470]

I'm so old that the other day I stood still in an antique shop, and someone put a price tag on me!

[@wooex]

I'm 42 and this made me feel good instead of sad :) Good times,good memories that's all it matters.

[@votpavel]

best quote i heard recently - "dont be sad its over, be happy that it happened"

[@gypsyjoanna]

Lord...I...am...so...old! I remember my brothers sending my mother a reel to reel tape player, and us recording and shipping these huge tapes, back and forth, when they were fighting in Vietnam. I was 6.

[@duncanstone8758]

My family did the same when my brother was in Vietnam in the late 60's. I was in high school at the time. In 2017 we sold Dad's place and found the tapes in my brother's old foot locker. They were in bad shape and we had nothing to play them on, so my brother sent them to the landfill with a bunch of other stuff we cleared out.

[@ckdesert]

Remember when watching "zoom" had a whole different meaning... not the video conferencing software, but the PBS kid show? Dang, I'm getting old!

[@lunarcorpse]

My sister loved that show. she'd always do the ubby Dubbie thing.

[@theoe2879]

Zoom, and The Electric Company! Saturday morning, pj's and a bowl of cereal till 10:00 a. ( Couldn't go out to play till then beacuse the neighbors, mom's and dad's, were asleep until then) Despite the sad times and hard lessons learned, I would TOTALLY do it all again!

[@blackblade99009]

i'm only 23 and i relate to most of this. being a poor southerner we still had dial up well into the early 2000s, my first alarm clock was an unholy abomination of metal, plastic, and wood, and glowed a soft red color, cartoon network was still running Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

[@mastersnet18]

To be fair most people had dial-up in the early 2000’s.

[@tammylewis8556]

Took my grandma back to Kentucky 1981. They still had outhouses. One young couple had a phone that everybody in the community used. And the tv had one station…it was the educational channel. Petticoat Junction😀

[@wishfulthinking9399]

You'll never again be as young as you are RIGHT NOW.

[@tammywilkinson8311]

I remember every single thing in this video. Yep I am a 70's baby. This was a great video thank you!

[@sharielane]

You know what, that floppy disk save icon does look like drink vending machine. I can't unsee it now.

[@howiedewin3688]

300 baud dialup monochrome display, and BBS was the social media.

[@ernestdesimone2234]

I think that is supposed to be the 3" diskette in the hard plastic shell, I believe the actual "floppy disk" was 7" in diameter. The diskette was a breakthrough in technology! :-D

[@brentliebrecht7866]

Still called it a floppy disk. Well inside the shell it was a floppy disk. Easier to store as well.

[@sharielane]

Yep. Everyone I knew called the hard disk thing a floppy, I suppose because they were used to calling the ones before - the wider thinner flimsy ones that actually flopped if you waved it - that.

[@AntonXul]

It had to be a Japanese guy to say it was a vending machine. They are way too addicted to vending machines over there. I would’ve never thought that it looked like one.

[@j.dragon651]

Age is a state of mind. Those stereos still kick the crap out of anything made these days.

[@danielhickmott5800]

I was born under a 48 star flag and remember all of this. Sharing with my kids ‘cause I know they’ll get a kick out of it. Sure things were simpler and maybe less stressful but if I want to take it easy now I just get away from whatever’s buggin’ me. I tell my grandkids I’m living in the science fiction future-world of my childhood. Travel, knowledge access/retrieval, medical advances, food/stores, etc…..all much improved. Enjoy life, help others along the way.

[@grenade8572]

I'm born in 1990. When I use my smartphone, I always remember that the touch screen was a dream of my childhood. :D

[@Timico1000]

I remember a time when our telephone had a specific place in the house as its cable was to short to take it to another room.

[@daveycrocker4466]

Remember the long chords we got later on the stretch pretty far.

[@Timico1000]

@@daveycrocker4466 In Germany the "Deutsche Post", the predecessor of the Telekom, didn't allow longer cords.

[@dguy0386]

the wall phone at grandmas house has such a long cord you can use the phone just about anywhere on the first floor, granted its not a very big house but its quite the stretch for a phone cord

[@dguy0386]

@@daveycrocker4466 I bet that's the kind of cord that phone has! my grandparents bought it in 1998 to replace a practically identical wall phone with a rotary dial that was there previously

[@TheoferrumII]

I remember party lines...

[@quearesteestavia7495]

I am older than a lot of this stuff. I remember High Fidelity, before stereo even.

[@MAILLADY2010]

The movie or reel to reel? Yep, I'm that old.

[@edwardhugus2772]

Car radios AND portable radios that were JUST AM, not AM/FM

[@MAILLADY2010]

@@edwardhugus2772 8 tracks that you had to install

[@edwardhugus2772]

@@MAILLADY2010 Agreed!

[@Smarterthanyou-mthrfkr]

Remember the titanic sinking too?😂

[@texashillbilly7623]

They forgot to show 8track and record players. Cassette tapes. Boom boxes. VCR. The Brick phone. Bag phone. Comador 64. Oregon Trail. Max Headrom. Pagers/beepers. Coke vs Pepsi taste test at The Mall. Home style burger at McDonald’s. Play ground with hot metal slides ya got stuck on if ya wore shorts. Ok I’m stopping now. I’m feeling old now.

[@maryg640]

4:25 i had a family member that left that same clock out at her yard sale. I was running the section it was in and she neglected to tell me that it was there for use as a clock, not to be sold. Obviously I sold it. She moves into her new house and goes crazy looking for her clock. I ask her which clock, and find out it’s the one I sold for five bucks two months prior.

[@azinfandellvr]

I use to search for these at yard sales & goodwill..we call them the groundhog day clock because it was featured in that movie with Bill Murray..they use to sell on eBay for quite a bit of money!

[@cherbear1996]

Best clocks ever

[@carolea1629]

📼📼📼 *Kids these days will never understand the feel good feeling when your favorite song came on, and also the pride and commitment it took to finish your own mixtape, let alone gift one or be gifted one*

[@clairewilliams9416]

Got asked by goggle the other day to enter my date of birth I did. It then proceeded to tell me how old i was in years, months, and days, it look everything I had not to throw the phone at the wall. I really did not need the reminder. I get it Goggle I'm old no need to rub salt in the wound.

[@rowenaconrow4840]

I had those speakers in black!!!!! Omgoodness I feel so old and I'm only going to be 30 next year

[@TastieTreats]

I remember the overhead projector.. I wanted to write on it so bad in class! 😂😂😂 I still have that pen bought one last year in staples.. was feeling nostalgic 😂😂😂 life is short and my youth was wasted on alot of bs smh my suggestion is get yourself financial comfortable when you're young so you can just enjoy your later years. The car lighter oh gawd.

[@Amy-ky5wr]

Found out yesterday from her mum, the kid I used to be a nanny for from age of 1 to 5... is now in year 12 at school!!!! How is it that kids grow up even when you're not looking at them?

[@JennyLouRN]

Come back when they have graduated from college, landed a good job, worked there several years, been promoted to executive positions, and make more $$$ than you….and make you ride in the back seat while they drive, and when you ask if you can stop for this or that, they tell you “no.” Yeah, come back and write about that.

[@Treble3]

When a co-worker started laughing, I said, “Boy, you sound like Horshack!” She said, “What’s that?”

[@chuckyray8548]

Got me all emotional lol time is so precious use it to live and enjoy your family

[@rayrowley4013]

Just remember, no matter how old you are, you have the rest of your life in front of you.

[@ValiantGarton]

That's just a SNAG way of saying, "Some people don't have much to look forward to.". And for the youngsters, I'm so old I remember when SNAG was first coined, I think.

[@lindadodson1586]

Less in front than behind :-)

[@thomashughes_teh]

Beware of impulsive older people. Some of them have figured out that a life sentence for crime just keeps getting shorter every day.

[@AnnabelleJARankin]

Yeah, but some of us have more 'rest of life' than others...

[@WCDavis-cl7si]

GET OFF MY LAWN!

[@danielmorgan4899]

I have one of those school desks I keep it in the corner to remind of how it was when I was in the fourth grade the teacher put my desk in the corner behind file cabinets with my back to the chalkboard so I wouldn’t be a distraction to other students....... To bad for the other students all suffered ADD OCD PTSD Anxiety many other mental cognitive malfunctions ... As for me I had developed Attention to Detail the ability to Reason and the Incredible ability to Focus from start to Finish without Distraction.......

[@SpaceOddity4214]

I remember when we use to think the year 2000 would never come. Also, Conan O'brien's "in the year 2000" 😂

[@prmm218]

Okay okay…..I still have my clock radio from the 80s! Still works like a charm!😅😅😅😅😅😅⏰

[@lukeadamson353]

anybody remember putting a blank tape in your boom box and listening to the radio all day for your song to come on, then sprint across the house to hit record? lol

[@emaarredondo-librarian]

When I was little, and on the *radio* there was some ad directed at seniors, the music was waltz. Later, it was tango. Then, it was the likes of Frankie Lane and such. When they start to play Queen, I am going to worry.

[@evezford]

I could feel some of those deep down in my old bones 😂😂😂

[@chrispoole9011]

I thoroughly enjoyed this! Made me smile! Oh the memories!!! Thank you!!!

[@saracarterette4071]

The late 1900s....that one hurt

[@grenade8572]

I'm born in 1990. I don't know why, I just find it funny (I only fewl old when I remember I read the first book of Harry Potter when the second didn't exist...)

[@robertdraper5782]

I was in the Midland pub in Liverpool city centre last month, they were playing 1950's R&R on a loop. I asked one of the bar staff if they could play something else, she said "the manager told us older people like you prefer this music", I'm 61, I saw The Sex Pistols, The Clash and Joy Division live.

[@DavidGoben]

I love telling my students -- When I was a kid (1950s), rockets weren't powerful enough to make it into space. They'd get about halfway up, and then we had to get out and push.

[@guylaraway6102]

I'm old enough that I remember TV in black and white. And homes outside of Ann Arbor Mich without running water.

[@beesnort3163]

Wait until a kid asks you what that “noise” is and realize it’s a dial tone or busy signal. 😬

[@scottmichael3745]

The car cigarette lighter one, I'm a mechanic of 31 years and had to fix them all the time. NEVER touched one (moma did not raise a fool) but they don't always glow so it's hard to be sure it's working. You just hold it "close" to your cheek. Even in the middle of the hottest summer, your cheek can feel that heat from 2 to 3 inches away! Never been burnt by one.:-)

[@howiedewin3688]

If you didnt have any papers, drop a lil piece of 420 in it to make due. (and don't get so close to burn your lips! LOL)

[@bennington7660]

I did touch it! Just once. I was drawn to it like a bug drawn to a zapper

[@anndownsouth5070]

I burnt my thumb on it once and it wasn't even properly red hot. It left a nice, sore spiral on my thumb and just had to shut up and bare it, because I would probably have gotten a spanking for messing with it.

[@brad6576]

They where great for smoking hash!

[@jdbroke162]

Yep, did the cheek thing also, nice to see other intelligent oldies. lol

[@clarencewhitley1051]

That stereo system is still better than anything they have today. I had all Technics and my speakers were Bose

[@clarencegreen3071]

About 5 years ago when I was advising a millennial friend on how to set up a component stereo system, I realized that most younger folks have never heard a real system and have no idea what one sounds like. She had a 500 watt amplifier given to her by her parents and wound up driving it with her phone. Once while visiting, I noticed the music was changing all by itself and asked what was going on: "That's OK. My husband is changing it with his phone." I still have a Technics turntable from 1978 and it's as good as new.

[@votpavel]

@@clarencegreen3071 i got some onkyo reciever and bose speakers from 10 years ago,i never set it up correctly cause im stupid and lazy but even stock set up its great. Aince you got older set up,how much precious conductor metals do you think they used compare to todays electronics?

[@wakeupmrwest4357]

I remember all this stuff and I can raise you. I remember running off dittos (making copies) with a hand crank. Boom. I'm 44.

[@bennington7660]

My bff was in charge of the media center our senior year. She had to hand crank all the test papers for the whole school….but I did pass all my tests that year😊

[@5roundsrapid263]

We had a Ditto machine when I was in kindergarten and elementary school. I remember the weird purple ink.

[@maryromaniec9543]

I used to wear "ditto" pants in tbe 70s.

[@celliek1877]

And the ink had that distinctive smell. Remember, the blue master sheet that you typed on and then gently placed on the mimeograph machine so you could crank out the copies? The blue sheet was fragile and if you made mistake you couldn't simply back space and retype because the typewriter had already punched the text into the blue sheet? Those were the days 😊

[@jaye1967]

I wonder how many people watching this are going, "I remember that, and that ..." 😀👍

[@samanthahardy9903]

👍

[@frankw7266]

52, and some of these hit deep. But, "Why is the save button a picture of a vending machine.....?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ThurstonDrunk]

The music I listened to as a teen is now played on the grocery store sound system..

[@maxswenson6605]

That clock radio? Still sitting on a stand next to my bed and faithfully showing the time for some 30 years. Still works like a total boss

[@suzannecooke2055]

I knew I was old when my student assistant called me m'am. Oh, the horror!

[@mayorb3366]

I said "thank you ma'am" to a woman in her early 20's. By her expression, I'm pretty sure that was her first time.

[@jon420]

@@mayorb3366 😂😂😂 I make it a point to say that to every female that I deal with. The look of horror on their faces is worth it.

[@vivy45]

m'am is just good manners

[@bugwar5545]

If you want to get even, remind the youngling that their day is also coming. If they are lucky.

[@seymourwrasse3321]

I feel like I was old when most of these just came out. I remember when the last adult in my family died, now I'm at the top of the list

[@johnw2026]

I am 37. In my living room, I am still running a Mayfair Stereo, with Omega 400 speakers, a Kenwood tape deck, an old Onkyo cd changer, and a fairly new Rock n' Rolla record player. AND I have an upright piano! TRY TO BEAT THAT!

[@TheoferrumII]

You sound like a Broken Record - do you know what that means?

[@johnw2026]

@@TheoferrumII yes!

[@amathenderson7318]

Omg so much fun 😆 🤣... born in the year of the white album!!!😘☮

[@quearesteestavia7495]

I do remember that school desk, and the square ones that were a bit older, but books and papers fit in them much better. those rounded ones made a mess of all your stuff no matter how tidy you tried to be.

[@howiedewin3688]

ones with thin wood seats and a metal box underneath for your books, that were notorious for amplifying FARTS (class room uproar)

[@Bayloy]

Oh man! That same alarm clock has sat on my father's night stand my whole life lol I'm 32

[@nyneeveanya8861]

I remember when to have music while camping, you had to pack in your portable record player, your box of 45’s and about a dozen D cell batteries. Just to have music for about 5 hours. Before that you left the radio on and hoped you didn’t kill the car battery. I even remember when the first transistor radios came out. AM anybody. No, I wasn’t at the first airplane flight, but i was in school when JFK was shot and I did watch the first moon landing.

[@zrp8y23]

Me too!

[@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever]

In 7th grade Texas history class when JFK was shot, just 60 miles down the road

[@TheoferrumII]

I was born just after Kennedy was shot and I remember the moon landing...

[@AppalachianPatriot]

Nothing like AM radio during a lightning storm.

[@kathleenking47]

27 days between the moon landing, and WOODSTOCK

[@josearvizu9277]

I was borned in 1963 man... I remember all of these things.WOW.......

[@mccoy1369]

Getting older is real, but hard to believe. A few days ago, someone told me that I was old because, anyone born in the 1900's was old. It took me a second to register, then i swear it felt like my heart sank, when the realization hit.

[@LynetteMcGrath]

I'll have to tell my youngest son that. He is 26, born in 1996.

[@votpavel]

1900s they say....hmm that feels kinda nice, i always adore victorian 1700-1800s, 1900s.... sounds classic,sounds elegant

[@lothean2099]

I still have that clock radio alarm. And I do remember when Netflix mailed dads to you...it was 9.99 a month and you had a limit of 4 movies out at a time.

[@ryublueblanka]

"Smoking 🚬 or Non Smoking 🚭?" when you enter a restaurant

[@tammylewis8556]

So forgot about that one.

[@rivertam7827]

I'm still hurting from that time about 10 years ago they announced the golden oldies hour on the radio then proceeded to play Smells Like Teen Spirit. 😭 👵

[@philiprice7875]

i have visions of me in an old peoples home playing my imaginary guitar using my zimmer frame☹